Albert Einstein wrote, "The problems that exist in the world
today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
Nonetheless, this country staggers forward with 'solutions' that
accelerate America's population problems.
In the past 10 years, the world added 880 million people. America
added 33 million and California added six million - on its way from
35 million to 55 million in the next 25 years. Good luck, Arnold!
Like California, many states found themselves inundated with sprawl,
gridlock, rising home prices, new forms of crime and diseases. Dozens
of foreign languages, causing confusion and conflicts, migrated
into America's schools. Today, America stands at 292 million and
grows by 3.3 million per year. In 47 years at mid-century, America
will add 200 million which will average four million people per
state.

An average of 8,200 people are added to our country every day via
annual net gains in US births at 1.0 million and immigration at
2.3 million--legal, illegal and their births. Soon past the mid-century,
those 200 million more Americans will be struggling for dwindling
resources, water, food and a diminishing quality of life. In a western
state like Colorado or Arizona, a drought in 2050 will become a
DISASTER along with many other consequences. When one state suffers
such a monumental crisis, all other states will be affected in time.

For graphic examples, one need only look at India and China. In
a recent speech, Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, said,
"In my country, 4 million people are born in the streets, live
in the streets and die in the streets-never having used a toilet
or shower." If massive population is so good, why is India
so poor? Even more sobering is China's plight at 1.3 billion and
growing at 12 million per year.Overpopulation will become the plague of the
21st century

Where is America headed? Do we want such a legacy for our own children?
According to 60 Minutes, we have one million homeless children struggling
in our inner cities today. Why can't we take care of their needs
even today? What will be the fate of another 200 million people
who create homeless children? How many is too many and when will
Americans address itself to that fact? Who possesses the courage
to step up to the reality of overpopulation/consumption/pollution
in America-in the long term? At this time, no one. Politicians scurry
like cockroaches at the mention of population stabilization. Corporations
demand larger markets as if nonrenewable resources will appear out
of thin air. They sacrifice the future of our children. Wake up!
We're like a runaway freight train with no brakes headed toward
a rock wall.

Americans face consequences in every corner of our nation. Our East
and West coasts, teeming with too many people, strive to deal with
escalating water, air and land dilemmas. Deep-water wells, already
polluted with industrial chemicals from farmers and manufacturing
plants dumping poisons-are drying up. Acid rains pound our lakes
with chemicals. Our cities create thick clouds where millions of
children breathe carcinogens with every breath. Farmers kill microbes
in the soil with fertilizers and pesticides - leaving us with contaminated
foods for eating. Each year, 1.3 million new cancers are detected
in our US citizens--an epidemic of our own making.

Eleanor Roosevelt said it 50 years ago; "We must prevent human
tragedy rather than run around trying to save ourselves after an
event has already occurred. Unfortunately, history clearly shows
that we arrive at catastrophe by failing to meet the situation,
by failing to act when we should have acted. The opportunity passes
us by and the next disaster is always more difficult and compounded
than the last one."

By failing to act now, what kinds of consequences will we as a nation
face when we hit 1/2 billion people? States like Colorado will add
100% more people to their already drought prone state. That's 100%
more cars, etc. In the US with 200 million more people, that's 77%
more traffic, 77% added planes in the air, 77% increased pollution,
77% faster uses of already such limited resources as gasoline. For
example: we're paving over 3000 acres of land each day for homes,
roads, and malls. With each new added American, 12.6 acres of wilderness
is plowed up to support that person. In the next 10 years, according
to the National Academy of Sciences, 2,500 plants and animals will
become extinct in the USA because of habitat destruction via population
growth. Why aren't we addressing the moral and biological consequences
of such horrific extinction rates? When you add global warming,
ocean fisheries collapsing, acid rain, ozone destruction, drought,
contaminated water supplies, poisoning and sterilization of the
soils by insecticides and fertilizers--we're building unimaginable
consequences.

How serious is our problem? Upon receiving the Sanger Award for
Human Rights in 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King said, "Unlike
the plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases, which we
do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble
by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What
is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal
consciousness of the gravity of the problem and the education of
billions of people who are its victims."

Fifty year go, Bangladesh, India and China ignored their accelerating
populations. Their problems are so gargantuan, they can't solve
them and simply suffer. Today, America's leaders are following the
same steps. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, we're
allowing the immigration of more than 2.3 million people annually
from countries that refuse to offer family planning. Since the American
female has a fertility rate of 2.03 children, it's not Americans
causing the rising population tide. We need immigration reform and
reduction to less than 175,000 people annually before population
momentum forces us to an added 200 million Americans and an unsustainable
society. If we don't tame this 'immigration monster' within the
next five years, it will grow past our ability to manage it. Once
the numbers are here, we will be saddled with Balkanization conflicts,
over 100 foreign languages, accelerating diseases, cultural conflict
and severe limits to our freedoms as the numbers grow out of control.
However, that 'future' can be changed by you and your actions today.

If we do nothing, we commit our children and all living things to
a difficult future by not addressing overpopulation now. It's a
disservice to ourselves, our nation and future generations.